Symposium Program

Overview and details of the sessions of the 45th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for further details on the presentations. Once you select a session or choose the List View of the program, you can access the extended abstracts by clicking on the button "Show Downloads" . *** You should be logged into your ConfTool account to be able to see the downloadable items ***

 
 
Preliminary Program of the Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing
Date: Monday, 10/June/2024
3:00pm
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7:30pm
Registration
Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)
5:30pm
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7:30pm
Ice Breaker
Location: The Grawood (SUB 1st Floor)
Date: Tuesday, 11/June/2024
8:30am
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9:30am
Symposium Welcome and Opening Remarks
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
9:30am
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10:30am
Keynote 1: Photogrammetry with Historical Photography
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Dr. Ewelina Rupnik
10:30am
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11:00am
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
11:00am
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12:00pm
Panel 1: Obtaining Funding Support for the Geospatial Sciences
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Lunch and CRSS-SCT Initiatives & Future Direction
Location: SUB Lobby (2nd floor)
Delegates may pick up lunch from SUB 2nd Floor Lobby and may choose to either have lunch in Cafeteria on the first floor of SUB or take their lunch to the Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building) for the CRSS-SCT meeting.
1:00pm
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2:40pm
Student Competition 1: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Prof. Yuhong He
Chair: Tom Lukowski
Invited Session 1: Historical Aerial and Satellite Image Records - Methods and Applications
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis
Chair: Roksana Sheikholmolouki
Invited Session 2: Novel Remote Sensing Technologies and Techniques for Understanding Peatland Condition, Disturbance, and Change - Part 1
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Dr. Koreen Millard
Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer
Scientific Session 01: Advances in Agricultural Remote Sensing
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Dr. Heather McNairn
Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
2:40pm
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3:00pm
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm
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4:40pm
Student Competition 2: Best Student Oral Presentation Award Competition
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Prof. Yuhong He
Chair: Tom Lukowski
Invited Session 3: Satellite Gravimetric / GNSS for Water Resources
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Prof. Kalifa Goïta
Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh
Invited Session 4: Novel Remote Sensing Technologies and Techniques for Understanding Peatland Condition, Disturbance, and Change - Part 2
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Dr. Koreen Millard
Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer
Scientific Session 02: Remote Sensing for Mapping
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Prof. Songnian Li
Chair: Prof. Craig Coburn
4:40pm
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5:40pm
Poster Session 1: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 1
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 01-09
Poster Session 2: Advanced Solutions for Agricultural Remote Sensing
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 10-15
Poster Session 3: LiDAR Sensing, Data and Applications
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 16-22
Poster Session 4: Observations and Monitoring of the Cryosphere
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 23-29
Date: Wednesday, 12/June/2024
8:30am
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9:30am
Keynote 2: Fifty Years of GIS and Remote Sensing at COGS, the Centre of Geographic Sciences (1974-2024)
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Dr. Robert Maher
9:30am
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10:30am
Panel 2: A New CRSS-SCT Model for Remote Sensing Certification
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
10:30am
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10:50am
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
10:50am
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11:50am
Keynote 3: Satellite Earth Observation and the Government of Canada: Past Successes, Current Projects, and Future Priorities
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Guennadi Kroupnik
11:50am
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1:20pm
Lunch and Student/Industry Career Connect
Location: SUB Lobby (2nd floor)
Delegates may pick up lunch from SUB 2nd Floor Lobby and may choose to either have lunch in Cafeteria on the first floor of SUB or take their lunch to the McInnes Room for the Student/Industry Career Connect meeting.
1:20pm
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2:40pm
Industry Session 1: Applied Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Gordon Staples
Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari
Invited Session 5: Digital Imaging Technology in Smart Farming and Sustainable Agriculture
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Derek Peddle
Chair: Dr. Keshav Singh
Scientific Session 03: Synthetic Aperture RADAR
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Kevin Murnaghan
Chair: Desmond Power
Scientific Session 04: Remote Sensing for Climate Change
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen
Chair: Dr. Bing Lu
2:40pm
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3:00pm
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm
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4:40pm
Industry Session 2: Applied Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Prof. Shabnam Jabari
Chair: Dr. Robert Andrew Ryerson
Scientific Session 05: Earth Observation Programs
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Ahmed Shaker
Chair: Dr. Farzam Fatolazadeh
Scientific Session 06: Remote Sensing for Coastal Monitoring
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Prof. Dongmei Chen
Chair: Gordon Staples
Scientific Session 07: Land Use and Land Cover Classification
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Desmond Power
Chair: Dr. H Peter White
4:40pm
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5:40pm
Poster Session 5: Artificial Intelligence Methods and Models - Part 2
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 01-07
Poster Session 6: Water and Wetlands Remote Sensing
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 08-16
Poster Session 7: Environmental and Climate-Change Monitoring
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 17-23
Poster Session 8: Mapping and Monitoring Urban Areas
Location: SUB McInnes Room
Poster stand numbers: 24-30
6:30pm
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10:00pm
CRSS-SCT Awards Ceremony and Stand-up Reception - Canadian Museum of Immigration
Location: Pier 21
Date: Thursday, 13/June/2024
8:00am
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9:00am
3-Minute Thesis Competition
Location: SUB McInnes Room
9:00am
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10:00am
Keynote 4: Two Paths Becoming One: An Indigenous Perspective on Earth Observation
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Speaker: Nikki Tulley
10:00am
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10:20am
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
10:20am
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12:00pm
Invited Session 6: AI4EO - Artificial intelligence for Earth observation analytics
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Dr. Masoud Mahdianpari
Chair: Dirk Werle
Scientific Session 08: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 1
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Dr. Laura Elizabeth Chasmer
Chair: Dr. Sylvain G Leblanc
Scientific Session 09: Remote Sensing for Natural Hazards
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Ashlin Richardson
Chair: Dr. Evangelos Bousias Alexakis
Scientific Session 10: Monitoring Cryosphere and Water Resources
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Prof. Chris Hopkinson
Chair: Dr. Celeste Charmaine Barnes
12:00pm
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1:00pm
Lunch
Location: SUB Lobby (2nd floor)
Delegates may pick up lunch from SUB 2nd Floor Lobby and may choose to have lunch in Cafeteria on the first floor of SUB.
1:00pm
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2:40pm
Invited Session 7: Aquatic Remote Sensing
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
Chair: Dr. Maycira Costa
Chair: Kristen Lynn Wilson
Scientific Session 11: Remote Sensing for Ecosystem - Part 2
Location: SUB 303
Chair: Prof. Aaron Andrew Berg
Chair: Prof. Brigitte Leblon
Scientific Session 12: Application of Remote Sensing in Forestry
Location: SUB 307
Chair: Prof. Richard Fournier
Chair: Dr. Karin Yvonne van Ewijk
Scientific Session 13: Satellite Data, Mapping, and Machine Learning
Location: SUB 270
Chair: Tom Lukowski
Chair: Daniel Alan Jewell
2:40pm
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3:00pm
Health Break
Location: SUB McInnes Room
3:00pm
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4:00pm
Closing Session and Symposium Awards
Location: Scotiabank Auditorium (McCain Building)
4:00pm
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4:15pm
Symposium Survey
Location: Online Survey
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